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Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2023

bring the model in line with semi-endogenous growth. We also innovate by incorporating consumptive amenities and fiscal … on the calibration strategy to capture the important role of consumptive amenities and fiscal transfers in Germany. The …

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Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties : European versus American cities

Picard, Pierre M.; Zenou, Yves - 2015

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...

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Understanding urban economies, land use, and social dynamics in the city : big data and measurement

Saiz, Albert; Salazar-Miranda, Arianna - 2023

Recent advancements in data collection have expanded the tools and information available for urban and spatial-based research. This paper presents an overview of spatial big data sources used in urban science and urban economics, with the goal of directing and enriching future research by other...

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Is there a diminishing value of urban amenities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Vuuren, Aico van - 2022

We investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic decreased the willingness to pay for urban amenities such as restaurants … detailed and flexible definition of density of urban amenities based on the exact location of these amenities and the walking … distance from the apartments to these amenities. We find a decrease of 1.9 percent of apartments that we label as amenity rich. …

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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...

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Industry churning and the evolution of cities : evidence for Germany

Findeisen, Sebastian (contributor); … - 2007

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of industries...

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Social networks and interactions in cities

Helsley, Robert W.; Zenou, Yves - 2011

We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...

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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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City size, pollution and emission policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2018

This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor) - 2005

We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may...

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